A MOBILE police station has been set up in Salford to help curb race hate crime against the Jewish community.

A MOBILE police station has been set up in Salford to help curb race hate crime against the Jewish community.

It will open on Fridays and Saturdays in Northumberland Street, Broughton, which is the heart of the orthodox Jewish District.

Race hate attacks on Jews in Greater Manchester rose by 40 per cent in the last year, according to a recent report.

The Jewish support group, Community Security Trust, logged 132 anti-Semitic acts in 2005, compared with 94 in 2004.

Orthodox communities in Salford, Prestwich and Whitefield are particular targets for assaults. The trust said there were 33 incidents of assault and extensive violence in 2005, representing 40 per cent of the national total.

Beaten

A pupil at a Jewish school in Salford was beaten with a baseball bat and a Jewish woman was pulled to the ground and kicked by an anti-Semitic gang in Mandley Park, Broughton.

The victim said: "My children were playing with friends and there was a large group of non-Jewish teenagers playing football nearby.

"The teenagers started kicking the ball deliberately at the youngsters and taunting them with a dog on a lead.

"I calmly asked them to stop and before I knew what was happening this teenage girl came up to me screaming abuse. She kicked me as I fell to the ground. She was raining blows on me and eventually was pulled off."

The station, when open, will be staffed by a police community support officer and will have a direct link to police HQ.

In addition, two foot patrols will be used in the area between 10pm and 1am on Friday and Saturday and will be joined by representatives from the trust.

Police are trying to recruit victim support volunteers from within the Jewish community and hope to start visits to local schools soon.